Review for Final spau 3343 Before we start… The final review session gives you great assistance

Review for Final

• SPAU 3343

Before we start…

• The final review session gives you great assistance.
• BUT
• The session may not cover 100% of your exam. You are RESPONSIBLE for all the issues introduced in your textbook, lectures, and lab sessions!!!

1. IPA

• International Phonetic Alphabet.
• Each symbol represents a single sound.
• We can transcribe any sound of any language with IPA.

2. Linguistics

• The scientific study of language
• (Note: not one particular language, but language in the universal sense…)

3. Phonetics

• Phonetics is a branch of linguistics. It is the scientific study of speech sounds.
• Articulatory phonetics
• Acoustic phonetics
• Auditory phonetics
• Linguistic phonetics

4. Phonology

• How speech sounds are used in language.
• The study of systems of speech sounds and the rules which govern them.

5. (Elements of) sound

• Sound consists of variations in air pressure creating longitudinal waves. The waves occur very rapidly one after another.

6. Phone

• An individual sound of speech; an elementary sound unit.

7. Phoneme

• Refers to the smallest sound unit in a language that distinguishes word meanings.
• -eme = “systematic unit”

8. Allophone – [ ]

• Allophones refers to a variant of a phoneme. The allophones of a phoneme form a set of sounds that do not change the meaning of a word.
• The differences among allophones can be stated in terms of phonological rules.

9-1. Vowel Monophthongs vs. Diphthongs

• Monophthongs
• A vowel in which there is no appreciable change in quality during a syllable, as in “father.”
• Diphthongs
• A vowel in which there is a change in quality during a single syllable, as in “high.”